,902 1 OBSF.R VA Tioys ON THE FLORA OF J A FA X. 57 



p. 109, tab. 14GC; Bentli. Hanilb. Brit. Fl. ed. 5, \\ 44C ; Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. VI. p. 128 ; Knrsh. in Act. Hort. Petrop. XII. p. 397 ; Pfitzer 

 in Engl, ct Prantl Natiir. Pflanzcnfam. II. 6, p. 91, %. 91, B, C; Kriinzl, 

 Orchid. Gen. et Sp. I. p. 532, 929; Finet in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, (1900) 

 p. 277, et in Rev. gener. Bot. XIII. (1901) p. 518. 



Ophr//s 3fono7'chis Linn. Sp. PI. \\ 947, Cod. no. C851 ; Floiitt. Nat. 

 Hist. XXX. p. 518 ; Willd. Sp. PI. IV. p. 61. 



Orchis Monordiis Crantz. 



Satyrium Monorchis Pors. Syn. PI. II. p. 507. 



Arachnites 3Ionorchis HofFm. 



Hah. Prov. Kushiko in Hokkaido: Tottori-mnra {T. Kaioalcumi \ Aug. 

 1897). 



Orchis (Androrchis) Joc-Iokiana Makino sp. nov. 



About 15-30 cm. in height, Tuher single, ellipsoidal, entire, about 

 10-13 mm. long, sessile; fibrous roots short, not man}'. Stem erect, slender, 

 leafy, with cataphylls at the base. Leaves erect, 2 or 3, laxly placed, 

 broadly linear, acuminate, sometimes acute in the lower one, membrana- 

 ceous, even-sided, glabrous, the lower one usu illy sheathing at base, 

 the upper ones without sheaths and embracing the stem with its sessile 

 base, the uppermost one reduced in size, the main lateral veins 1-2 on 

 each side, the largest one about 10 cm. long, IJcm. broad. Raceme 

 2-7 cm. Irng, loosely and secundly 2-8-flowered ; rachis gracile, glabrous ; 

 bracts linear or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, membranaceous, often 

 obtuse at the base, longer than the ovary, the largest one about 3i cm, 

 long, G mm. broad. Perianth ovato-lanceolate, entire, membranaceous, 

 with 3 main nerves, violet. Outer perianth : the upper one erect, obtuse, 

 scarcely shorter than the lateral ones; the lateral ones muchdeflexed dorsally, 

 obtuse, oblique in form, 9-11 mm. long, 4-41 mm. wide. Inner perianth 

 directed forwards, shorter tlian the outer perianth, acutish, 7-9 mm, long, 

 4-4i mm. broad. Labellum sessile, patent, horizontal, broadly orbiculate, 

 widely truncate at the base, shortly trilobed with nearly equal rounded 

 lobes and right-angled sinuses, emarginate at the midlobe, membranaceous, 

 usually crenulato-denticulate on the margin, radiately veined, 10-13 mm. 

 long, 12-15 mm. wide, violet, spotted deep purple at the base; calcar a little 

 longer than the ovary, horizontal, narrowly cylindrical, obtuse -tipped, scarcely 

 arcuate, glabrous. Gynostemium erect, 3-3i mm. long, connected to the 

 calcar below, subretuso-rounded at top; anther semiorbiculate. Ovary 

 cylindrical, 10-14 mm. long including the pedicel. 



